Grumpy Old Man

I’m surrounded by them. They scare me. They infuriate me. Vote GREEN PARTY!!!

I saw this on BoingBoing. It makes me too sad to even grump about it.

Thanks to Free Speech TV:

Come on all you idiots running this country – stop playing school girl games with this partisan nonsense and do what we elected you to do!!  I can’t stand that you disagree with someone because they’re in a different party or you feel you have to vote for something because your fellow party member wants you to.  WTF?!  Grow up.  We elected you to represent us, not play games and get rich.

The insurance companies are sucking this country dry – they’re as bad as the bankers. No, they’re worse – they’re messing with people’s lives, not just their money.  There is so much waste and fraud in our current health care system it just makes me sick.  Not just the insurance companies either – from hospitals double billing and throwing away sealed medical supplies to Doctors doing unnecessary procedures and supply companies renting equipment at rates that would allow you to buy new every 2 months.  It’s got to stop!

The insurance companies determine the outcome of life or death situations with no regard for human life – it’s all about profit.  Talk about “death panels”…. I’ve read story after story of people who were denied coverage and died while trying to fight the decision to withhold medical care.

Personally I can’t buy health insurance at all, even if I could afford it – no way, no how, not qualified, sorry Charlie.  You’re not healthy enough for us to cover you.  Thank goodness I’m a vet and can get healthcare through the VA – if not for them, I’d probably be dead by now.

What is the big deal on “socialized medicine”?  Almost every other civilized nation takes care of its citizens, why not the USA?  I hear some of those dumb-fuck republicans saying they’re OK with health care reform as long as there is no public option because it’s bad for the insurance companies.  HUH?  Bad for the insurance companies?  Who cares?  Are you protecting your citizens or the health insurance companies?  Oh, never mind… I forgot that the health insurance companies have lots of money for Congress.  Much more than any mere person could give.  And since the Supreme Court has decided that corporations are people… well, I guess I know how much clout I have.

Here’s another one that gets me going..  “Free health care for all citizens will make us a socialist country.”  What’s the difference between public healthcare and public fire departments?  What about public libraries?  They didn’t put all the book stores out of business.  Public roads didn’t put the trains out of business or the airlines out of business.  What is everyone so afraid of?  The main duty of any government is to protect its citizens.  What better way to protect us than to keep us alive and healthy?  The fireman doesn’t ask for proof of insurance before he puts out the fire.  The doctor shouldn’t be asking for proof of insurance either.

And as far as “mandatory health insurance” is concerned… who does that help?  Not me – I still can’t afford it.  It helps the insurance companies again.  What about mandatory car insurance?  Well,  I don’t HAVE to drive a car, but I do HAVE to have a body that sometimes needs care.  What happens if I don’t pay my insurance bill?  Do you make me stop breathing until it’s paid in full?  Revoke my license to live?  Throw me in jail? Fuck you!

Should someone really lose their house, car and life savings because a loved one gets sick?  Should our retired citizens have to choose between food and medicine?  What in the world are you thinking?!?!!  Stop debating, stop asking what’s best for YOU and pass serious healthcare reform!

Here’s an excerpt from an article I found on AlterNet.org.  Read the full article here:

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“In 1987 agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency showed up at Monticello, Jefferson’s famous estate.

Jefferson had planted opium poppies in his medicinal garden, and opium poppies are now deemed illegal. Now, the trouble was the folks at the Monticello Foundation, which preserves and maintains the historic site, were discovered flagrantly continuing Jefferson’s crimes. The agents were blunt: The poppies had to be immediately uprooted and destroyed or else they were going to start making arrests, and Monticello Foundation personnel would perhaps face lengthy stretches in prison.”

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So they no longer sell “Jefferson Poppy Seeds” in the gift shop.  They no longer sell the T-Shirts depicting his beloved poppies and his “medicinal garden” is gone.  What does this accomplish?  How does erasing the history of one of our founding fathers keep us safer as a nation?  WTF?!  Pretty soon they’ll be telling us that slavery never existed, the Nazi movement in Germany was just a fantasy and the bill of rights were just a suggestion.

Do you supposed the folks at the Monticello Foundation are allowed to talk about the fact that Jefferson had a “Medicinal Garden”?  Can we know that Washington, Jefferson, and other founding fathers grew cannabis (and not just for rope)?  I suppose having that kind of knowledge is dangerous and if the DEA had their way it would probably be illegal to spread such stories about our founding fathers.

My favorite place in the whole world to get biscuits & gravy closed their doors last week.  Not surprising.  I’ve been going there for years for breakfast.  Not only do they have the best biscuits & gravy north of Dixie, but all their other breakfasts were pretty darned good, too.

About a year ago, I decided to try them for supper.  It was OK, but nothing like their breakfasts.  A few weeks ago, I went for dinner again and this time brought a friend.  It was easily the worst dinner I’d ever been served at a family restaurant.  My friend’s sandwich was made with bread that was so stale, I can’t believe they had the nerve to sell it to us.

I had fish & chips – the fries were the worst I’d ever had and the fish fillets were pretty nasty, too.  I ordered a lemonade.  It was delicious. I guzzled it down and when I asked for a refill I was told that it would be full price for a second glass;  “it’s considered a juice, not a soft drink”.

Damn!  Why didn’t you tell me that when I ordered it, Bitch, not after I drank it.

I’ll miss going there for breakfast.  Too bad, so sad, you blew it chumps!

What’s your favorite euphemism for angry?  Here are a few that I’ve heard and like…

• That really frosts my pumpkins
• That gives me the Red Ass.
• Pissed off
• Makes my blood boil
• Seeing red
• Going Postal
• Cheese me off
• Get your panties in a bunch

Got more?

1. Stupid People
2. Prohibition laws
3. Politicians
4. Anti-theft packaging
5. Fox News
6. Fake Anti-Virus 2010
7. People who lie (see #3)
8. Dandelions
9. Texas
10. This politically correct attitude we’ve seen for the last 20 years or so

Catch me if you can! I’m trying to be anonymous.  Have I succeeded?

Think you know who I am?  Get me on the phone.  I haven’t told anyone yet that this blog exists.

I’m going to tell one person who I am and have that person get the word out that the first person who can call me on my cell phone and say “I know who you are, Grumpy McGrumpster” gets 50 American dollars.

No cheating – you can’t just start torturing your friends and asking them if they know Grumpy McGrumpster.  And so help me, if I found out that you learned my secret identity because this ONE person that I’m telling can’t keep a secret, <<Person I Told>> owes me dinner.  And not one of those cheap ass chain restaurant dinners either – you have to take me to a real classy joint.

Also it’s not fair if you’re my web host or name registrar.  Be reasonable and don’t cheat or I’ll unleash my grumpiness in your direction.

Catch me if you can! (Contest ends April 1, 2010)